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The Cool Tricks and Trinkets Newsletter #206 8/8/02 |
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Welcome to the 206th issue of the Cool Tricks and Trinkets Newsletter offering weekly insights into new, cool, useful, fun, unusual and interesting sites on the Internet. In this issue: -
Henry and Kathleen See Europe ~~~~~ Cool Tricks and Trinkets is made possible by~~~~~~ A1 Discount Hotels (an affiliate of Hotels.com) offers discount rooms in over 5000 hotels worldwide with choices from budget to 5 star hotels. Bookmark our site for you next trip. Visit us online or call our operators at 888-511-5743 http://www.a1-discount-hotels.com <Editor's Note> A1 Discount Hotels is my primary business and source of income. You can support Tricks and Trinkets, by checking us out the next time you're planning a trip. For personal travel needs, write me at info@a1-discount-hotels.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
At Leafpile, Henry and Kathleen see the world as a great big pile of leaves to leap into, and you're invited to join the earnest romp. Kathleen is a photographer and Henry a writer so their submersion into the world, especially European peasantry life, is rich and articulate. As the couple share their trip across Europe and beyond, Kathleen points her lens right into the faces of Transylvanian peasantry and sun-lit Egyptian pyramids. The Best of Leafpile offers travelogue highlights, like graphic images of slaughter-time on the Romanian farm and picnic-like scenes of the High Crosses of Ireland. Henry's Reading Room offers fantasy fare by Henry, who plans to be a screenwriter and children's book author, fueled by their travels. Conspiracy Central Give yourself a reason to be paranoid at AboveTopSecret.com, a comprehensive offering of more than 100 news articles and theories designed to expose worldwide secret government and military efforts to control, well, everything. Besides the usual conspiracy topics like UFOs and Area 51, specialty topics like global electronic surveillance, neuronal chips and supercomputers that manipulate human "emotion signature clusters" are exposed. A lively chat room and message board with 23 active forums, a news portal called X-gate where users can post stories, and coverage of a dozen or more topics from aerospace technology to weather modification will keep you up all night worrying. http://www.abovetopsecret.com/ Childhood Mementos Cereal boxes, Halloween make-up, and ticket stubs from theme parks are the stuff of childhood memories, gathered here at Tick Tock Toys, "a cavalcade of images and ideas" from personal collections. None of the items can be purchased - the point is simply to show it off and provoke fond memories. Candy, cookie and pudding boxes are part of the vast Kids' Food Gallery. Household products include a 1967 box of Lux detergent with a coupon for a 15" Beatles' inflatable toy. Cereal boxes remind visitors of the formidable Frankenberry, a strawberry-flavored cereal with marshmallow bits. And proof that McDonald's didn't invent fast food giveaways - a 1970s Bob's Big Boy hand puppet. http://theimaginaryworld.com/page4.html SHORT TAKES Hello Dr. Kitty Characters from Hello Kitty walk visitors through questions like "Which mushroom is poisonous?" to reveal how stressed you are and how you handle it at the Hello Kitty Psychological Test. What possessed the folks at Sanrio to branch off into psychology is a mystery, but maybe those little girls carrying pink plastic umbrellas and lime green toothbrush holders are showing signs of anxiety. http://www.sanriotown.com/psycho/psycho6/psycho6_us.htm <><><><> Internet Movie Awards Attention spans on the Internet can't retain info about films they saw way back in January, so it makes sense that Internet Movie Awards.com lets visitors vote for the best films, filmmakers, and performers of 2001 six months into the year. Nominees for the 2002.1 awards are films released between January 1st and June 30th. In 6 months, you can vote for the best of the second half at the 2002.2 awards. http://www.internetmovieawards.com/ <><><><> Redneck Neighbor Redneck Neighbor is a personal web page about every suburbanite's worst nightmare, the clutzy,noisy, tasteless neighbor whose failed building projects become part of the local scenery. Scroll through story after story about loud parties and feeble - even fraudulent - attempts at home improvement, crowned by a Jesus statue atop the mailbox. http://www.knology.net/~carlos/redneck.htm Enjoy
the newsletter? Tell your friends to subscribe by sending an email to: Ring of Art Recreate the pleasure of strolling a gallery, wine glass in hand, moving from canvas to canvas and making perceptive comments- without the wine - at The Artring. The online German gallery of painting and photography ranges from the naive Sicilian landscapes of Aurelio Pernice to the "womanlines" purity of photographer Fabrizio Viscardi. Visitors are invited to probe the pieces, read about the artist's work and then send him/her an e-mail with praise, criticism or queries. The emphasis is on communication, both from and to the creators, with the art acting as the channel. Weegee's World You may not recognize his name but you can't have missed his photos. Weegee, whose work and world are celebrated at Weegee's World, was the ultimate photographer of crime, news, fashion, celebrity - in short, of American life in the 20th century. A consultant on Kubrick's "Dr. Strangelove" in 1958 and a Vogue photographer in the 1940s, Weegee was born just as the 20th century began. Though he died in 1968, visitors can hear audio clips of the master telling how he got the pictures and the jobs. Naked City, Weegee's book of images of New York, gave the world indelible images of Harlem, Jerry Lewis at his zaniest and Jayne Mansfield at her bustiest, all on view. http://www.icp.org/weegee/weegee.html History Buff Nothing makes events more real than reading about them in the newspaper - even when the news and the paper are 400 years old. Perhaps more so. At The History Buff, the drama returns to faceless names and meaningless dates via news coverage from the 16th to the 20th century. Nearly 20 years ago, site creator Rick Brown began publishing his Collectible Newspapers journal, the source of the material here. Visit the Presidential Library for coverage of inaugural speeches, discover how major events have been covered differently by audio and print news media, learn about newspaper collecting or play interactive quizzes to find out if you're a bonafide history buff. **********Advertisement************** THE COOLEST COLOR BUSINESS CARDS These cards will make you proud to have a business. Create, personalize, edit, print and order a unique one of a kind business card. http://www.ebusiness-cards.com ******************************** Eating Utensils "Why should a person need a fork when God had given him hands?" So said Englishmen when first presented with the fork, considered an effeminate and ridiculous device. At the Academy of Sciences' History of Eating Utensils, 1,700 cutlery items are presented, evidence of mankind's persistent attempt to improve upon - in porcelain, wood and pewter - the human hand. The site documents the history and evolution of forks, spoons, chopsticks, knives, tableware and portable eating sets. The Greeks invented kitchen forks to carve and serve meat, and spoons have been with us since Paleolithic times. Portable Cutlery includes gorgeous Japanese travel chopstick/ knife sets - and not a "spork" in the whole bunch. http://www.calacademy.org/research/anthropology/utensil/index.html Barthelme Portal An admirer of the American short story writer, novelist, editor, journalist and teacher Donald Barthelme has scoured the Web for all online sources of Bathelme's work and presents it on this web site, called simply Donald Barthelme. Readers can enjoy great chunks of stories and non-stories from this wry, funny writer who has written for the New Yorker and earned both a Guggenheim Fellowship and the National Book Award. His sharp, caustic work appears with just the barest of commentary. Like the writer, who relied on language more than plot line to make the point, Barthelme's words speak for themselves. http://www.jessamyn.com/barth/ SUBSCRIBERS' SITES - Many of our subscribers have fascinating on-line projects. This weekly section will introduce you to some of these sites. Please let me know about your project so that I might mention it in this section. Write me at info@tricksandtrinkets.com ~BigDates.com - Your FREE personal assistant for your important dates. ~A quarter of - All your favorite sweets. ~Complete Case - Online divorce forms. ~Click
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